The paper ordered to print Thomas Friedman’s new book (co-authored by Michael Mandelbaum), That Used to Be Us, was made from low emissions mechanical pulp vs. the chemical pulp used in his previous bestseller. By this choice, Macmillan reduced CO2e emissions by a factor equivalent to our 2nd scope emissions from a year’s worth of electricity to power the entire Flatiron Building, our corporate office, in New York.

A staggering 50% of North America’s 108 million corporate PCs and monitors are left on overnight and on weekends wasting up to $4 billion of electricity a year. (source)

Though accounting for only five percent of the world’s population, Americans consume 26 percent of the world’s energy. (source)

A single-sided 10 page letter costs $.55 to mail and it is going up, copied on both sides the letter uses only 5 sheets and costs only $.34 to mail. (source)

Energy saved from recycling one aluminum can could operate a computer or TV for three hours and a six-pack saves enough energy to drive a typical car five miles. (source)

One ton of 100% PCW recycled paper (400 reams of 8 1/2″ by 11″ copier paper) saves the equivalent of 4,100 kWh of energy, 7000 gallons of water, 60 pounds of air emissions and three cubic yards of landfill space. (source)